Hi! I am a professional freelance film director & senior video editor with 9 years experience cutting video for brands like GlaxoSmithKline, Guinness, Activision & The London Metropolitan Police.
For my full Showreel & Portfolio, please visit my website: www.watkinsfilms.com
For business inquiries: sam@watkinsfilms.com
Projects
- Vestillo - Luxury Menswear PromoThis is a video I produced and edited for a startup luxury menswear company called Vestillo. The brief was to create an exciting and eyecatching product showreel, to show off several suits and start introducing the brand to the world. So we shot multiple glossy products and interspearsed these with weather and texture shots to create a visually interesting showreel that pops. Alongside this we used an electronic, intriguing track to help bring the piece together and give some overall structure
- Space: Interstellar CollonisationLast year during furlough, I had a lot of time on my hands. So like many others out there I decided to try and improve my skillset and have a go at something I've always wanted to try - 2D animation. I've always been a fan of the 'In a Nutshell- Kurzgesagt GmbH' animated videos and wanted to make something like this. So I did some research on Google and found out that Skillshare have a course on it, led by Sonja Geracsek. After finishing the course, I then decided to create a project to cement m
Projects credited in
- South Bank TowerThis was a series of short videos for the South Bank Tower website (www.southbanktower.com) to highlight the luxury amenities, fantastic views and exciting local attractions surrounding the luxury apartments. Aerial cinematography from a helicopter captured the sleek modern design of the building exterior as well as its perfect setting amongst some of London's most iconic landmarks like St Paul's Cathedral and the London Eye. Day-to-night and night-to-day timelapse films were also made from se
Work history
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Video Editor & DirectorWatkins Films
Edinburgh, United KingdomFreelance
I am a multi-award-winning freelance video editor & Director with particular experience in cutting commerical, corporate and entertainment videos. For my showreel and portfolio please visit www.watkinsfilms.com
For business inquiries: sam@watkinsfilms.com
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Volunteer Video editorQuilombo UK
- Kingston upon Thames, United KingdomPart Time
Remote, part-time video editing work for UK based charity Quilombo working on tackling a range of social issues. I helped contribute by creating a range of video editing and motion graphics work.
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Skills
- Video Editing
- Motion Graphics
- Video Production
Education
2D Compositing for Visual EffectsEscape Studios
- 190 High Holborn, Holborn, London WC1V 7BH, UK
Learned how to use Nuke for industry standard VFX practices such as painting, rotoscoping and compositing. Taught by full-time Tutor from Framestore, London whose credits included (Avengers: infinity war, captain america the winter soldier and Thor the dark world).
B.sc Computer ScienceUniversity of Dundee
- Dundee, United Kingdom
During my time studying Computer Science at the University of Dundee I was exposed to a range of different programming languages (C, C++. C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, C-LISP, Python etc) and a range of different software frameworks and approaches.
In addition to this I worked in 12 different student teams over my 4 year course learning and utilizing waterfall and agile software development methodologies.
During the course we also got to work with real external companies such as Arnold Clark to create bespoke software solutions. Further to this I also participated in individual and team presentations to senior business and technical professionals as part of our course projects.
Awards
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Best Short Music DocumentaryJerome Indie Film & Music Festival
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Best Short DocumentaryLonely Seal International Film Screenplay and Music Festival
WINNER - Best Short Documentary+ Show more